Theo Smeets

Theo Smeets (born March 11, 1964 in Valkenburg , Netherlands ) is a Dutch jewelry designer.

education and profession

Since Smeets worked in 1998 as a professor of jewelery design at the Fachhochschule Trier at the Department of design in the field of gem and jewelery design in Idar-Oberstein . He was vice dean of the design department and head of the department from 2005 to 2011.

He learned gold and silversmiths at the Vakschool Schoonhoven (1982–1986) in Schoonhoven and studied jewelry design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (1986–1992) in Amsterdam with Joke Brakman , Onno Boekhoudt and Ruudt Peters .

1990: Hiko Mizuno College, Tokyo
1993: De oogst , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam; Tekens & ketens , Museum v / d Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands
1995: Contemporary Dutch Jewelery , Sofa, Chicago, USA
1996: European Jewelry , Sofa, Miami, USA
1998: Solo , Museum het kruithuis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
2001: Op de huid , Arnhem Museum, Arnhem , The Netherlands
2002: Diadeem voor Máxima , Museum het kruithuis, Den Bosch , Netherlands
2004: Valuable left. Jewels from the OSCE countries , Museum für Völkerkunde , Vienna; 'A Tiara for Maxima', Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
2005: Traveling Symposium , Museo Travassos, Douro , Portugal
2006: Turnov Symposium '06 - The Collection , Museum Turnov , Czech Republic
2007: "SkinCase", Pedros Y Pegassos, Porto, Portugal
2009: "3 of a kind - V" Galerie AdK, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011: "Triennale du bijou contemporain", Mons, Belgium